Istat worrying: ‘Increase of salaries never so low as 34 years’ – Blasting News

In April this year the upward trend of earnings is the lowest since 1982. To detect it is the ‘ Istat , which reported an increase in hourly wages by 0.6% , renewing the previous record low, set in January, when the figure had stood at 0.7%

the comparison with the previous year

in the first quarter of 2016, the average hourly earnings was up 0.7%, compared to the same period last year. For workers in the private sector the increase was 0.8%, while the salaries of public employees remained unchanged. Going into detail, the sectors that registered a significant increase are the employees of the textile industry, apparel and leather processing, which compared to April 2015 were up 3.4% . well the gas and electricity sectors, which have seen an increase of close to 2%.

The national collective bargaining agreement regarding 35.9% of employed

At the end of the first quarter 2016 National Collective Labour Contracts (CCNL) , in force for the remuneration is affecting almost 36% of employees. Between the National Institute of Statistics surveyed agreements, there have been no renewals or other changes, while seven contractual agreements have come to the agreed fixed term.

52 pending contracts to be renewed

collective agreements work come to maturity, and waiting to be renegotiated, are 52, of which 15 are related to public administration. The pending renewal of the contract workers to stand at 8.3 million, of which 2.9 million related to the public use . Numbers in hand, the vacant contract covers 64.1% of all employees, 53.6% if we take only the private sector under consideration. Waiting times for renewal, on average, are more than three years, to which the media contribute so certain public contracts in the private sector because the wait is reduced to less than 18 months. Which however, are not few.

The Italian salaries are among the worst in Europe

According to a survey of “Willis Towers Watson” , recovery and published by “Republic” in February last year, at European level, Italy is at the bottom of the average salary ranking: especially on entry wages, traveling at an average of 27 thousand euro per year.